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Council reveals new museum designs
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Southampton's new Sea City Museum to form part of Cultural Quarter proposals
Funding boost for
heritage scheme
By Pete Hayman A scheme designed to examine
the industrial history of local
Southampton City Council (SCC) communities near Walsall, West
has unveiled the latest designs Midlands, has received a funding
for the new Sea City Museum boost from the Heritage Lottery
Project, which is set to form Fund. The Local Community 50
part of the wider development Plus Forum has been awarded
of a new Cultural Quarter. £44,700 for the Know Your Place
The first phase of the Sea City scheme, which will see young
Museum scheme, which has people work with a group of
been designed by London- people over the age of 50 years
based architects Wilkinson Eyre, old to trace the history of the
is scheduled to open in 2012 to Blakenall, Leamore and Bloxwich
mark the 100th anniversary of The new museum will outline Southampton's role as a major port areas. It is hoped that a local
the sinking of the Titanic. history society will be set up as
Exhibition galleries will tell displays will also tell the story more space for the council's art a result of the initiative.
the story of the city from of local crew who worked and heritage collections.
pre-history to the present day, aboard the ill-fated Titanic liner. In addition to the new
Heritage park planned
with a particular focus on the Special galleries will be museum and the City Art
for East Lothian
city's role as a major maritime shared between the museum Gallery, the proposed new Phantassie Heritage and
port and as a departure and and the City Art Gallery to Cultural Quarter will incorpo- Rennie Meikle have submitted a
arrival point for people create more space to display rate a refurbished Guildhall planning application to East
travelling across the world. the council's collection of Square, a new arts complex, Lothian Council to develop a
Visitors will be able to paintings, before the second the Mayflower Theatre, the BBC mixed-used project at Phantassie
experience what it was like to stage of the Sea City Museum studios and the Guildhall. Steading in East Linton. The
be in the Merchant Navy at the Project expands the exhibition Work is already underway to heritage-based park will feature
start of the 20th century, while areas after 2012 to provide refurbish Guildhall Square. exhibits on the 19th century
steading's agricultural and
industrial history, a children's
Last chance to view Mary Rose
Event to design play centre, a bar/restaurant
NI visitor centre
and eight retail units.
By Pete Hayman
Exhibition design group Event
New strategy for Derby
The Mary Rose warship at Communications has been
World Heritage Site
Portsmouth Historic Dockyard appointed to develop the A new £155,000 regeneration
is to be withdrawn from public interpretive design for the strategy led by Derby City
view on 20 September in order planned £18.5m visitor centre Council has been launched to
to allow construction work to at the Giant's Causeway tourist preserve the long-term future of
start on a new £35m museum attraction in Northern Ireland. the Derwent Valley Mills World
at the Hampshire attraction. Event will work closely with Heritage Site in Belper. The
A special programme of Architects Wilkinson Eyre were The National Trust – which Darley Abbey Regeneration
events and activities will be behind the museum's design manages the world heritage Strategy, which includes the
provided during the temporary site – on the project which will conservation of Grade II-listed
closure of the historic Tudor Plans for the museum, which include scoping and shaping buildings, also involves Derby
warship, which will remain out has received £21m from the the interpretative plan for the and Derbyshire Economic
of view until 2012. Heritage Lottery Fund, have Giant's Causeway and Cause- Partnership, the European
John Lippiett, Mary Rose been designed to reflect the way Coast World Heritage Site. Regional Development Fund,
Trust chief executive, said: "We structure of the original vessel Event's executive creative Derby City Partnership and the
have devised an imaginative and the adjacent HMS Victory. director, Steve Simons, said: East Midlands Development
programme of events and Designed by a team "The Giant's Causeway is one of Agency. Atkins, the consultancy
interpretations during the including architects Wilkinson the great natural wonders. I am firm, has been appointed to
closure to give visitors a Eyre, the building will also thrilled that Event has been undertake a study into methods
different, but equally fulfilling, imitate a section of the Mary awarded the task of immersing of maximising the economic and
visitor experience." Rose's missing port side. visitors in its splendours." tourism benefits of the site.
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